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The issues add to a steady drip of wider problems in UK official statistics that is leading to a reduction of faith in the ...
Before the open, markets gave a muted response to a US-China ... Consumer inflation was up 0.1% month over month, Bureau of Labor Statistics data showed, compared with the 0.2% rise expected ...
The Consumer Price Index rose 2.4 percent in May, from a year earlier, a reading that reflects only the initial impact of ...
Conventional wisdom dictates that higher-than-expected inflation readings push the dollar higher because markets anticipate the Fed will hike rates in response. That’s not necessarily true, according ...
The average rate on 30-year fixed home loans from Freddie Mac ticked down again to 6.84% for the week ending June 12.
Today's inflation data came out much lower than the market anticipated. Bonds improved quickly in response thus allowing mortgage lenders to offer lower rates. The average lender is back in line ...
The BLS has been in the wars recently because of increasing concerns about the quality of its data. Although the US statistical agency said its weighting error in the employment figures was minimal ...
Wall Street stocks and the dollar fell on Wednesday, while U.S. Treasury yields eased, amid fresh tension in the Middle East, ...
Switching to online surveys creates problems like fresh biases in the data. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...
N ew Consumer Price Index (CPI) data suggests that inflation has once again ticked up, but only very slightly. Over the past ...
May’s inflation data was set to be the first real test of how consumer prices would be impacted by historically high tariffs.
The UK’s Office for National Statistics used to knock on doors and ask people if they were employed, as a traditional way of compiling the country’s labor market data. But when Covid-19 forced social ...